Monthly Archives: November 2006

Cal Henderson – Taking Flickr to Gama

Cal Henderson is the chief software architect of Flickr and he spoke at the Future of Web Applications conference about Taking Flickr to Gama. Flickr started as a tool for the development of massively multiplayer online game by Ludicorp. As it turned out the game was shelved and photo-sharing tool became Flickr. Ludicrop as a [...]

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Ted Rheingold – Dogster

Ted Rheingold started Dogster as a joke and now he is laughing all the way to the bank. At the Future of Web Applications conference in San Francisco Rheingold talked about The State, Future and Business of Passion-Centric Communities. According to Rheingold, a passion-centric community is dedicated to a single particular interest with a single [...]

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Michael Arrington – What’s Next For Web Applications

At the Carson Workshops’ Future of Web Applications conference in San Francisco, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch presented on What’s Next For Web Applications: creating tomorrow’s Flickr. According to Michael, predicting the future of web application is difficult. He stated, “Honestly, the people that are most likely to succeed are probably not in this room, and [...]

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Class HighLite GraphicsEnvironment

As a Java developer, every once in a while I need write code that lists all the available fonts or requires the screen dimensions for some calculation. To do this sort of work I often use the java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment class. To get started let me demonstrate how to get an array of all the available fonts. [...]

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